Paradise Fibers to offer two new lines of yarn from Cascade Yarns. The two new lines are Cherub Aran and Heritage 150 yarn. Cherub Aran is the thicker version of the popular Cascade Cherub DK already in the store. The Heritage 150 is the big sister of the Cascade Heritage Sock Yarn which has also turned some heads this last year with some great new colors and knitting patterns. Free Knitting Patterns are available for all of these yarns on the Paradise Fibers website and will be printed and

The government has set the cotton production target at 14.1 million bales for next season 2013-14, which is 5.75% more than the current year’s anticipated output. For this season, the government had originally set the target at 14.6 million bales (each of 170 kg), but later revised it to 13.3 million bales following damage to crops caused by floods. The Federal Committee on Cotton, which met on Wednesday in the Ministry of Textile Industry under the chairmanship of Textile Secretary Dr Waqar

Annie's Wicker, an online retailer of outdoor all-weather resin wicker furniture and cushions, introduced select Sunbrella fabrics to its fabric choices for seating cushions and pillows. With over 300 fabric choices for indoor and outdoor furniture replacement cushions and their wicker furniture cushions, Annie’s Wicker is responding to customer demand by adding select Sunbrella Olefin and Dupione fabrics with plans to add more Sunbrella fabrics in the future. Sunbrella brand fabrics are the

Oil prices eased in Asia today as revised fourth-quarter US economic growth disappointed, while dealers eyed huge federal spending cuts due to take effect, analysts said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in April, shed 45 cents to $91.60 a barrel and Brent North Sea crude for April delivery slid 43 cents to $110.95. “Oil suffered from the lower-than-expected US fourth-quarter GDP,” said Jason Hughes, head of premium client management for IG Markets Singapore. Data o

Country`s silk exporters Thursday expressed concern at Finance Minister P.Chidambaram's proposal to increase duty on imported raw silk, fearing that it would further hit exports of silk fabrics as they heavily rely on cheap and high-quality imported raw silk from China. In order to give a measure of protection to domestic sericulture, Chidambaram in his budget speech proposed to increase the duty on raw silk from 5 percent to 15 percent. "It could help a little bit domestic raw silk producers

The New York cotton futures experienced a slightly stronger downward trend than the Cot look A or Bremen CIF Index during the reported week reflecting the firm market prices for available cotton as already described in the previous week. The availability of the preferred medium staple cotton was partly limited; sometimes only qualitative concessions enabled the supply. The domestic demand was said to be good up to restrained. Although the spinning industries’ price ideas were below origin in

Your favorite bargain retailer, H&M, is on a major winning streak with Helen Hunt wearing one of its gowns to the Oscars (major!) and then holding its first runway show in eight years in Paris on Wednesday. Now I'm hearing buzz that H&M is planning to launch e-commerce in June. This is a runway look from H&M's show yesterday. It was a fun and playful collection (notice the model doesn't have that typical I'm-so-bored-with-this look on her face). Source: Glamour

Photo documnet of Bali textile. (tenunindonesia.com) Bali`s exports of textile and textile products (TTP) shrank 19.83 percent in value to US$100.65 million in 2012 from US$125.54 million in the previous year. The export earning fell despite an increase in volume because of shrinking price, I Ketut Teneng, chief spokesman of the Bali provincial administration, said. Bali`s TTP exports rose 3.02 percent in volume to 45.51 million pieces in 2012, Ketut Teneng said here on Wednesday. He sa

Seafood and garment exporters have confirmed that orders have come in rapid fire since the beginning of the year. However, this has raised the worry about the lack of materials and the production cost increases. Resuming the production on February 15, the catfish of the Hung Vuong Seafood Company have been running at full capacity to be able to deliver goods on schedule. Duong Ngoc Minh, General Director of Hung Vuong, said many other seafood companies also have to gear up and increase the pr

As many as 104 private and public sector textile mills have shut down since 2009 on account of financial and labour problems, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Referring to textiles commissioner data, textiles minister Anand Sharma said the number of closed cotton/manmade fibre textiles mills (non-SSI) was 104 from fiscal 2009-10 up to December 2012. “The major reason for closure of mills is financial problems. However, mills are also closed on account of labour problems and lock-outs,”